Senior Director, Product

Zynga • Austin, TX

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About The Position

Join us in our mission to connect the world through games and to delight consumers with exhilarating social gaming experiences! Zynga is looking for an experienced Senior Product leader who can own outcomes, drive results, create fun for our players, and directly impact the business performance of large-scale games, including perennial Zynga favorites Words with Friends and Harry Potter: Puzzles & Spells. As Senior Director of Product, you will oversee product and game design verticals with Creative Directors and Heads of Product reporting directly to you. You work closely with game team leadership to align on a cohesive vision and strategy for each business unit, ensuring roadmaps are set up to deliver on business objectives. You will partner closely with Engineering, Production, Art, and UX at your level to manage multiple large-scale live franchises and shepherd in-development casual titles to launch.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in product management in consumer web or game development is helpful but not required.
• Capable of leading product strategy and vision across the company.
• Ability to provide competitive analysis and strategic direction for any feature.
• Leader who defines experimentation best practices, including experiment design, analysis methodologies, experiment reports, and readouts.
• Strong manager who ensures reports receive mentorship, training, and feedback.
• Passion for games and crafting fun, compelling, and exciting user experiences.
• Outstanding written/oral, organizational, analytical abilities, and attention to detail.
• BA/BS degree.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for overall vision, strategy, and top-line business outcomes for the casual division’s product portfolio, currently made up of Words with Friends, Harry Potter: Puzzles & Spells, and an unannounced casual title.
• Directly manage Heads of Product and Creative Directors on casual while working to develop future product and design leaders.
• Collaborate with respective discipline leaders of the Casual Division to drive overall business growth, healthy culture, and productive and happy teams.
• Drive product design or innovation that represents a meaningful contribution to the company.
• Consistently identify product risks and develop mitigation strategies.
• Manage expectations and communicate optimally to both the game team and senior executives in a variety of formats, including Quarterly Business Reviews.
• Ensure the team’s product decisions are based on rigorous analysis and intuitive design. Define analytics standards in partnership with the analytics manager.
• Inform and validate roadmap/product direction through proactive customer engagement methods and Consumer Insights partnership.
• Strong partner with marketing, user acquisition, analytics, consumer insights, central product, lifecycle management, and VIP

Benefits

• Zynga offers a world-class benefits package that helps support and balance the needs of our teams. To find out more about our benefits, visit the Zynga Benefits site
• Regular, full-time employees are also eligible for a range of benefits at the Company, including: medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance coverage; 14 paid holidays per calendar year; paid vacation time per calendar year (ranging from 15 to 25 days) or eligibility to participate in the Company’s discretionary time off program; up to 10 paid sick days per calendar year; paid parental and compassionate leave; wellbeing programs for mental health and other wellness support; family planning support through Maven; commuter benefits; and reimbursements for fitness-related expenses.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director